In this podcast, I briefly go over 20 mosquito-borne diseases. In this not all inclusive list, I discuss a range of diseases to include malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever and more of the most common diseases,...
While the world’s focus has been on COVID-19, sometimes it seems like nothing else is happening in infectious diseases. But that is far from the reality.
In recent years, we’ve seen Nigeria report...
Florida has reported about 1.6 million total COVID-19 cases, including more than 24,000 deaths.
We’ve known for some time that some of the most vulnerable people are those aged 65 years and older and...
By Robert Herriman @bactiman63
Researchers from the University of Florida in a new study report the mosquito, Aedes scapularis is now established in mainland Florida in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
How...
In late 2018 into early 2019, an outbreak of a form of hantavirus called Andes virus, swept through a small town in Argentina infecting 34 and killing 11.
Researchers led by a team from the U.S. Army Medical...
Last month, a multidisciplinary panel led by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American College of Rheumatology published the 2020 Guidelines for the...
The U.S. is in the grips of a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic and the numbers are rising at a rapid pace.
A vaccine is what public health officials are banking on to get us out of it.
With that,...
President-elect Joe Biden recently announced a new 13 member COVID-19 advisory board to guide his administration during the transition period.
One of the members is Center for Infectious Disease Research...
In this news podcast, I look at the success and progress of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and their situation concerning receiving and Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).
Today, the Centers for Disease...
By NewsDesk @bactiman63
Russian authorities reported seven deaths recently due to people who drank methanol-tainted hand sanitizer after running out of drinks at a party.
In this podcast, I look at...
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